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Does anyone else find it ironic that all these ChatGPT "clones" are popping up when OpenAi is supposed to be the ones open sourcing and sharing their work? I g
by jppope 4y ago
Does anyone else find it ironic that all these ChatGPT "clones" are popping up when OpenAi is supposed to be the ones open sourcing and sharing their work?
I guess: "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"?
- Taek 4y agoSam Altman has turned into a megalomaniac.
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- brandall10 4y agoPossibly, but it is a bit unusual that he has zero equity in the company. So it might not be for monetary reasons.
- airstrike 4y agoI still haven't fully ruled out that his consciousness has been replaced by an AGI
- JohnFen 4y ago> when OpenAi is supposed to be the ones open sourcing and sharing their work? OpenAI renounced being open source. Don't let the name fool you.
- throwaway4837 4y agoI think all of the "AI alignment" talk is mostly fearmongering. It's a cunningly smart way to get ignorant people scared enough of AI so they have no choice but to trust the OpenAI overlords when they say they need AI to be closed. Then OpenAI gets a free pass to be the gatekeeper of the model, and people stop questioning the fact that they went from Open to Closed. AI being tuned to be "safe" by an exceedingly small set of humans is the thing we should be afraid of. It's the effective altruism effect: if you bombard people enough with "safety" and "alignment" speak, they will look past the fact that you're mainly interested in being a monopoly. My bigger conspiracy theory is that Bill Gates getting behind "AI alignment" is a calculated move to get people to look past Microsoft's unilateral involvement.
- soup10 4y agoI don't know what press releases you've been reading, but the model is closed so they can make money off it, that's pretty obvious.
- throwaway4837 4y agoI think that is a simple take and underestimates the insidious nature of the AI alignment initiatives. Or maybe I'm overestimating it.
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoAt this point I'm really not sure what they're up to in terms of grand strategy. I don't even know that making money is their ultimate goal. At a certain level of ambition money is just a tool to get what you really want.
- brandall10 4y agoIt's interesting to note that Altman has no equity in the company. One of the primary motives of being a for-profit company that was espoused was to be competitive with big-tech AFA bringing in top-level research talent.
- JohnFen 4y agoI don't think that Altman's lack of equity position in OpenAI means anything at all when it comes to what OpenAI's goals are. We know what their immediate goals are: to make as much money as possible. The only question is what their longer-term goals are.
- OkGoDoIt 4y agoSeems like it would make sense for that to be the real reason, and the safety concerns to be a convenient scapegoat, although from talking with several people who work at OpenAI, they really do seem to believe the safety/alignment issue deep in their bones. I could almost be led to believe that the massive business advantage of keeping it closed is a happy side effect for them and not the actual reason.
- 0xDEF 4y agoAI and high-performance semiconductors are the only technological fields where the US and allies haven't been surpassed by Russia and China. There is probably a lot of political pressure on OpenAI to be as closed as possible. Remember the US government has banned Nvidia from exporting A100/H100 to China/Russia. Those are the same chips OpenAI uses for both training and inference.
- amelius 4y agoAnyone in China/Russia who can comment on the actual situation? How difficult is it to train/run AI models where you are living?
- coolspot 4y agoRussia is simply importing A100s through shell companies in UAE.
- ric2b 4y agoIn which fields have Russia surpassed the US? I get China, but Russia?